http://arkomina.com mina arko Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:11:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Before returning to Ljubljana from Lapland, I made a small detour and visited my brothers in Geneva. We had a brothers-sister reunion and I felt my holidays really started. After spending too much time up north I found it really difficult to adjust myself to the more southern type of ... http://arkomina.com/blog/597/geneva http://arkomina.com/work/586/tankki http://arkomina.com/work/568/paris http://arkomina.com/work/557/book-cover http://arkomina.com/work/552/off-the-map I've been wanting to go there for ages and this year my dream finally came true. Although it was not all about movies (but also about mosquitoes and inappropriate camping equipment for the 'finnish summer weather'), our time there was very enjoyable and I am looking forward to see the ... http://arkomina.com/blog/531/midnight-sun-film-festival I had an exhibition opening in Myymälä2 together with my friends and schoolmates Tirza Ben Porat, Minna Mäkipää, Jukka Peltosaari and Ben Dromey. Our topic was Love! Opening night was really nice, a lot of friends showed up. The exhibition is open until 13.6., WELCOME!! This is my roommate Tekla, ... http://arkomina.com/blog/527/love-been-there-done-that For the past month I've been working on my first art project - with A LOT of help from media lab Ben Dromey. The CityBeat installation is translating sound and transforming it into heartbeat pulse. We are currently trying to get the permission from the Helsinki Central railway station to ... http://arkomina.com/blog/514/media-lab-demo-day For a duration of three days, six students from HSE and Taik participated in a social experiment — SWA!P. We exchanged lives by swapping apartments, lessons, friends and hangouts. This experiment explores the differences in lifestyle of art and business students. We hope to find out if the environment we ... http://arkomina.com/blog/500/the-swap In January we had a workshop with Andreu Balius from Typerepublic. It was intensive work and fun at the same time. I started to work on this type, I wanted it to have big contrasts between thin and thick lines. Drawing these thin lines in Fontlab was a real pain, ... http://arkomina.com/blog/489/andreu-balius-workshop http://arkomina.com/work/470/ring-roads-europe My this year's Christmas cards in English and Finnish. I might develop these letters to a new display font ... http://arkomina.com/blog/462/x-mas-cards We had a really good workshop with a German designer Anette Lenz. Our topic was the New Year's wish for Helsinki. The first assignment was collecting photos of different places that reflect certain emotions (respectful, profound, encouraging ... ) We had to share moments in our life when we were ... http://arkomina.com/blog/456/anette-lenz-poster-workshop http://arkomina.com/work/447/helsinki-poster A slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek (his picture is taken form his website) gave a lecture in Kiasma today, titeled Cinema and ideology: report from battleground. He talked about ideology - he described it as an invisible background noise that is never spoken about, but is rather everything that stays between ... http://arkomina.com/blog/443/slavoj-zizek